have any of you ever used one of these for anything? be it racing, wanting twin sticks to look cool , whatever....my question being is there some sort of lockout that is unapparent that keeps you from accidentally putting both levers into gear and locking up your tranny? Is there some sort of gate underneath? thinking of using a variant for a LSR car that needs a much thinner and a bit remote shifter than you std Hurst. Super T10 being shifted. see pic for example... Thanks, Hans
Yeah... lighting rods! Ran them in a few ovaltrack race cars. Lighter than a standard shifter, but you do need to be carefull!! We had a tranny with 1st gear removed, which wasn't legal so we put the linkage upside down on the 1st and 2nd fork right side up on 3rd and 4th. Tech inspector grab the shifter and put it into what he thought was 1st but it was actually 2nd. Passed tech that night! They are not very practical for the street, you can't go from 2nd to 3rd very quick.
We use them in our circle track car. They are for a tranny like a Bert or a Brinn, they have 2 forward gears and reverse, you cannot put both levers in gear at the same time on them. Some of the shifters have a latch to hold it in direct (high) gear. I guess it would be ok for a 3 speed manual.
the detents to keep it from going into 2 gears should be part of the factory side cover on a stock trans-they were on the muncie 3-speeds I ran
Want to say I saw two levers on the floor of zibo's RPU once. And he has definitely put some miles on that thing.
there was also the vertigate by mr gasket. inline 4 speed shifter with a seperate lever 4 engaging reverse. just picked 1 up on here for my roadster!
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